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my wife said NO! via thisistheverge: LaCie and Philippe Starck create $299 ‘Blade Runner’ limited-edition hard drive LaCie has teamed up with French designer Philippe Starck to create a limited-edition Blade Runner external hard drive. The Blade Runner is a 4TB hard drive that connects via USB 3.0.
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must explore… via vellum: Ejecta – Impact A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS. Ejecta is like a Browser without the Browser. It’s specially crafted for Games and Animations. It has no DIVs, no Tables, no Forms – only Canvas and Audio elements. This focus makes it fast.
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tumblr_mg7nviuvbu1qz6f4b austinkleon: Pink Floyd, “Wish You Were Here,” off Wish You Were Here (1975) 1973’s Dark Side Of The Moon made Pink Floyd rich. When they came off the tour, they were emotionally and physically exhausted, but they went into the studio in 1975 to record their next album anyways. It wasn’t going well. David…
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*They’re not dead yet, but they serve no technical function, other than the skeuomorphic legal and financial pretense that e-books are “books,” and therefore somehow different from all other digital files. *It’s sorta like the “Wall Street Journal” still pretending that the Wall Street Journal is whatever it thinks it is this week. *I hope…
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3liza: DEEP MAP PILOTS Pay-What-You-Will .PSD download! This is a zip file containing all five Deep Map Pilots in unflattened PSD (Photoshop) format. All layers I used during the creation of the images are included. These may not be usable by older versions of Photoshop (I use CS5). These files are useful for those who…
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There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren’t. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and…
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speculative alt.history via: albotas: Famicom Software For The Modern Age Morgan Conley’s Famicom Software Project explores what it would be like if the Nintendo Famicom was an actual personal computer system that required different cartridges for visiting websites and using programs. Check out the video below to see what PhotoShop would look like as an 8-bit…
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Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude. But if you think of…
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Where do we draw the line between tinkerers and hackers? “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity – Salon.com Hacker = Tinkerer. Above is a quote from a well intended essay. The sentence betrays a lack of understanding of the history of hacking and can subvert the premise of the essay. It reinforces a culture of…
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studio630: How to Improve Architectural Education (In 12 Steps) 1. Obsess with keeping current. Provide a campus program for faculties and staff that updates the latest statistics and metrics about the design profession. For instance, compensation metrics and the business metrics of success. Bring students, faculty, and administration together to share knowledge on the current realities…